Music & Culture

At creator Chris Carter's request, composer Mark Snow tried to make the X-Files theme sound like The Smiths. In the process, he stumbled on a very different sound — that would become iconic.

Watch the mother-son folk duo perform one of its charming songs live in Boston.

Transient troubadours, Paul and Krystal Jean Masson, create a drifting kind of Cosmic American dream-pop; watch and listen to the lead track off their debut album.

An old-skool progressive house epic from a new solo album by the now-solo ex-Swedish House mafioso.

Six years after the grindcore trio's debut, Magrudergrind returns sounding bulkier and meaner than ever. Hear the thrashy, D-beat-driven "Regressive Agenda."

On "White Privilege II," the rapper questions both his position within hip-hop and as a white person unsure of his role in the struggle of black people fighting injustice.

Wolf Alice's music can be noisy and primal, but at the Tiny Desk it showed a different side, as it performed three songs from 2015's My Love Is Cool.

Watch the worldly, danceable band perform a new song, "The Critic," from its first album since 2008.

He's a world-class Afro-Cuban percussionist, the first call of jazz and pop stars. He's also a Santería priest. As he tells us after a traditional ceremony, the two aspects of his life are connected.